Wash-bench



UNITED STATES i PATENT OFFICE.

ELIZA JANE VHITLOV, OF HOUSTONIA, MISSOURI.

WASH-BENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,808, dated July 9, 1889.

Application led January 24, 1889.

T0 all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, ELIZA JANE WHITLow, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Houstonia, in the county of Pettis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVash-Benches;A and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in wash-benches.

The obj ect of my invention is to provide a bench which is adapted to receive a tub, so that a clothes pounder can be operated thereon. v

My invention also has in view the employment of the bench as a clothes-rack for drying the clothes after they are washed.

My invention consists in a wash-bench one end of which is provided with a rigid vertical` standard having a hinged section slotted to receive the staff of afclothes-pounder, said slot also being adaptetd to receive a hinged section of a drying-frame, so that it may be maintained upon the stand.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved stand, showing the same as used in connection with a clothespounder. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the parts of my improved stand as used as a drying-frame.

A refers to a bench, which is supported by suitable legs and is provided with a standard B. To near the lower port-ion of said standard is secured a bracket C, which may be made up of a single rod of metal, which is secured to the standard by a staple a and a screw or bolt a', which passes through an eye formed in one end of the rod, the other end of the rod being extended downwardly and outwardly and formed into an eye c2, by means of which itis attached to the edge of the top board of the stand or frame, thus forming an open bracket, upon which a basket may be placed or upon which the pounder Serial No. 297,392. (No model.)

(shown in Fig. l) may be held in an inverted position.

To the rigid standard Bis hinged a section B', which is provided with a hook b, which engages with a staple b to maintain the section B in a vertical position when the hook and staple are in engagement with each other. This section B', which forms a pivoted handle, is provided with a slotted recess c, through which passes a pin c', which may engage with the shaft of the clothes-pounder or with a section of the drying-frame.

The pounder may be of ordinary construction and is adapted to be used in an ordinary tub in the manner well known in that class of washing-machines known as pounders.

D refers to the drying-frame, which consists of a member E, to which is hinged a section E which carries a series of bars having cords upon which the clothes to be dried are suspended. One end of this section E is provided with a tenon adapted to fit snugly within a recess or mortise c and be secured therein by a pin c when the section B is placed and secured in a vertical position. This frame D is designed to be removed from the bench when the .pounder is in use, and in order to relieve the standard B B from lateral strain when this frame is in use the lower end of the member E is provided with a broad base or foot e, as shown.

By means of the stand or wash-bench hereinbefore described the clothes can be readily washed, and after being washed the same frame can be converted into a rack to be used in drying them, and the pounder after being inverted and placed in the bracket can be used as 4a receptacle for the clothes after they are wrung. i

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. A wash-bench provided at one end with an immovable standard. B, a section B',

hinged to the top .thereof and provided with 9 a mortise c, a hook and staple to retain the section vertically on the standard, and a removable drying-frame consisting of a vertical member E, provided with a foot and a horizontal section fitted with radial arms IOC and terminating at its free end in a tenen Within the recess or mortise c, substantially to engage the mortise c, substantially as deas shown. xo scribed. In testimon5T whereof I affix my signature in 2. In a Wash-bench having rigid vertical presence of two Witnesses. 5 standard B, a section B hinged thereto, and ELIZA JANE VHITLOW.

provided with a recess c, a drying-frame NVitnesses: made up of the sections E and E, the section Y D. L. BERRY,

E having arms and a tenon adapted to it JAMES RICHARDS. 

